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Multi-Channel Recording on Winchester Disks: Improving the Channel/Minute Ratio

The acceptance of the -tapeless studio- throughout the industry has been slow due to a variety of performance factors associated with Winchester Disk systems as the primary recording media. These factors include, overall transfer bandwidth, maximum density and storage time, disk interface characteristics, backup mechanisms and data formats. However, disk-based recording offers certain significant capabilities beyond tape systems, especially random access, virtual track storage and interactive track slipping. A new disk IO system is described which provides maximum disk performance at reasonable cost per channel-minute.

Authors: Kulick, Jeffrey; Pennycook, Bruce; Pearson, Eric; Guimond, Marcel
Affiliations: D.M.A. Image & Audio Systems, Inc. Montreal, Quebec,Canada ; Eric Pearson & Marcel Guimond CVDS, Inc. Montreal, Quebec, Canada(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference:7th International Conference: Audio in Digital Times (May 1989)
Paper Number:7-020 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Audio in Digital Times

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